My pennies on how to best plan a self driving itinerary around New Zealand’s south (and also best, in my humble opinion!) island — particularly useful for my fellow introverted travellers. Features a full itinerary of my own road trip in March 2018, campsite suggestions & top sights.

Up until 2004, before they dynamited their way through the mountain to make a tunnel, this was the only way to access the small village of Gásadalur - making it one of the last places on the islands to be accessible by road. The hike that we are making today, The Old Postal Route, gets it name from just that. Three times a week the poor postman would have to climb the hill to deliver mail to the villagers.

I'm Linnea, a 20-something introvert globe trotter, carb loving vegan and part-time super heroine from the woods of northern Sweden. The blog is about having an inability to stay in one place longer than six months.